On Mon, 21.03.11 09:35, Bruno Wolff III (br...@wolff.to) wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 16:22:59 +0200, > Gilboa Davara <gilb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > My question is simple: Given the fact that I rarely encrypt the root, > > can I somehow delay the encrypted partition mount to right-before-gdm, > > so all the essential services (samba, nfs, cups) - especially network > > and sshd, will be up, so I can remotely type the password required to > > mount the encrypted partitions? > > I think under systemd there is a timeout and the system will continue to > boot without the encrypted devices being mounted.
On systemd systems you can add "nofail" to the options in /etc/crypttab. If used systemd will automatically decrypt the device if it is plugged in (you will get a wall message telling you to enter the passphrase for that and how to do that), but if it isn't it won't delay bootup. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
